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Translate captions in Premiere Pro

Automatically translate captions generated in Adobe Premiere Pro or imported via caption sidecar files (like .srt) to improve the accessibility and reach of your content.

  Use new beta features

Translate captions is now available for testing and feedback. Try it now in Premiere Pro (beta).

Learn more on how to automatically translate captions.

How to translate your captions?

Before you begin:

To translate captions, first create them by doing the following:

  1. After importing your media, open the Text panel and select Transcribe to generate a transcript. Or, enable automatic transcription while importing your media under Import settings.
  2. Convert the transcript into captions.
  1. To create captions, select the Create captions   icon on the header of Transcript tab. Or, directly go to the Captions tab and select Create captions from the transcript

    Tip:

    You can also drag and drop a new caption file for your media (like an SRT file) into the Timeline panel.

  2. Select the Translate captions   icon in the Captions tab. Or, select the more menu   icon and select Translate captions. Or, you can right-click on the header of the caption track and select Translate captions from the context menu.

    UI shows the three workflows to translate captions.
    A. Translate through the Translate captions icon B. Translate caption through the More menu C. Translate captions through the context menu.

  3. Choose the language you want your captions translated into and select Translate.

    UI shows 'Captions and Graphics' workspace with 'Translate Captions' dialog box highlighted.
    You can translate captions into multiple supported languages simultaneously to make your videos more accessible.

  4. The captions will be translated using cloud service and third-party translation models, and a new track will be created in the Timeline panel. The progress of the translation is displayed in the Progress panel and on the track item. 

  5. Select the eye   icon for each corresponding language track to display all the captions on the Program Monitor.

    Display captions in multiple languages on the Program Monitor
    Display captions in multiple languages on the Program Monitor and edit their appearance.

  6. You can then select and style the captions using the options in the Properties panel. Once you are done styling, apply the style to all captions in the track by selecting the Redefine style   icon in the Properties panel and selecting All captions on track.

    Click Redefine styles and then apply styles to all captions on track.

After styling the captions, you can export captions (as .srt files), or export videos with captions burned-in, or sidecar files

Burned-in captions allow exporting multiple captions simultaneously, while currently, embed and sidecar captions only support exporting one caption at a time.

Note:

You can provide feedback on the quality and accuracy of the translation or report it for being problematic or offensive by selecting the feedback   icon at the bottom-left corner of the Captions tab and rating or reporting the content.

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If you have questions about translating captions in Premiere Pro, reach out to us in our Beta support community. We would love to help.

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